"They [the OBR] are absolutely clear, and they are absolutely independent. They are
absolutely clear that the deficit reduction plan is not responsible [for depressed economic growth]; in
fact, quite the opposite."

"For the avoidance of doubt, I think it is important to point out that
every forecast published by the OBR since the June 2010 Budget has
incorporated the widely held assumption that tax increases and spending
cuts reduce economic growth in the short term."

"[We believe that] the
consolidation measures put in place by the previous and current
governments would have been sufficient to reduce GDP in 2011-12 by
around 1.4%."

"To summarise, we
believe that fiscal consolidation measures have reduced economic
growth over the past couple of years."

Not only did Robert Chote explicitly rebuke David Cameron for lying about the economic effects of austerity, buried deep within an October 2012 report from the OBR is an explicit admission that austerity could actually be entirely responsible for the flatlining of the UK economy. Unfortunately, nobody in the mainstream media, nor the opposition front bench picked up on this shocking admission. I wrote an article about this admission back in October 2012 when the report came out.

The facts that Cameron has been publicly rebuked for lying to the public twice in little over month, and that his pre-election statements about the NHS ("the NHS is safe in our hands", "no top down reorganisations of the NHS", "we'll cut the deficit not the NHS") are now widely recognised by the public as outright lies, suggest that the Prime Minister is actually a pathological and unrepentant liar.

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